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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
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Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
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In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.
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But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.
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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
